Solar Cells Info

1.1-megawatt system is expected to save more than $13 million in utility costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 950 metric tons
FRESNO, Calif., November 8, 2007
Source: Chevron Energy Solutions press release
http://www.chevronenergy.com/news_room/default.asp?pr=pr_20071108.asp

Chevron Energy Solutions, a unit of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), and California State University, Fresno (Fresno State), today announced the completion of a large-scale solar power installation at Fresno State that will supply 20 percent of the university’s annual power needs. The 1.1-megawatt solar system—the largest photovoltaic (PV)-paneled parking installation at a U.S. university—is expected to save Fresno State more than $13 million in avoided utility costs over its 30-year lifespan.
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Producing Approximately 1 Million Kilowatt Hours Annually, Ground Mounted Photovoltaic System is Significant Step in Meeting Port Board’s Environmental Directives
Oakland, CA – November 8, 2007
Source: Sun Edison.com  press release
http://www.sunedison.com/

The Port of Oakland and SunEdison today celebrated the activation of a new 756 kW ground mounted solar power system. The zero emission clean solar power system is a major step in meeting the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners’ environmental directives and is the Port’s first utility generation plant. The photovoltaic system, which will deliver approximately 1 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean renewable energy annually, was deployed under a solar energy supply agreement with SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider. (more…)

V Krithiga,
Tirunelveli, India, Nov. 16, 2007
Source: NewIndPress.com
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20071116021549

The Tirunelveli Corporation’s plans to install solar powered devices under its jurisdiction, is gathering dust for more than two years as the civic body has so far not furnished the details to the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) which has promised to grant a subsidy for the project.  As part of its quest for reducing the ever-growing electricity bill and to popularise the advantages of using solar-powered gadgets, the previous Tirunelveli Corporation administration had initiated steps to install solar powered devices in some areas under its jurisdiction.
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Defense and Commercial Customers Gain Energy Benefits from Savi’s Innovative Use of Solar-Powered Radio Frequency Identification Hardware
Mountain View, CA, Nov. 19, 2007
Source: PRNewsWire/CNNMoney.com
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CLM03319112007-1.htm

Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company , has recently begun deploying solar- powered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and signposts, enabling customers in the defense and commercial sectors to conserve energy and reduce costs while tracking supplies in real-time. Solar energy provides an energy efficient and environmentally friendly power source for users’ RFID hardware, and also eliminates the need to install electrical infrastructure in remote areas where there is no fixed reader infrastructure.
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By Yang Chuen Jen / Nov 17, 2007
Translated by Angela Hong
Source: Taipei Times
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/11/17/2003388263

In response to growing international calls for renewable energy, Council for Economic Planning and Development Minister Ho Mei-yueh  has proposed that farmers install solar panels in their fields. Perhaps a more viable strategy is to replace sheet metal roofs with solar panels.  In 1999, Barcelona passed a regulation decreeing that all new buildings and modifications on existing buildings supply 60 percent of their hot water through solar energy. After Barcelona implemented this scheme the following August, Catalonia and other regions followed suit. By 2005, it had become the only piece of legislation that applied to the entire country.
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Source: GlassonWeb.com /November 19, 2007
http://www.glassonweb.com/news/index/6911/

People from Austria enjoy living in harmony with nature, particularly those who live in the region known as Styria, the green heart of the alpine republic. This is probably also why resourceful engineers and investors came up with the idea of generating heat and electricity from sunlight here. In living up to its motto ”A City Full of Energy”, Europe’s first Plus Energy housing estate was founded in the community of Weiz, the capital city of Eastern Styria with a population of 9,000. It consists of 24 row houses that generate more electricity than they consume. Tenants and owners obtain their electrical power from more than 400 multicrystalline solar modules, most of which are type ase 275 from schott. The photovoltaic installations stretch out across the entire southern sides of the houses and simultaneously provide the upper floors with shade.
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Algiers, 14 Nov 2007
Source: Reuters Africa
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL14410372.html

An Algerian company is planning to build a power cable to Germany to export solar-generated electricity from the Sahara, a state-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday. Tewfik Hasni, chief executive of New Energy Algeria (NEAL), said the 3,000 km (1,875 mile) cable would be laid from the Algerian town of Adrar to the German city of Aachen under a project provisionally entitled “Clean Power From The Desert”, El Moudhaid daily reported. He made the remarks at an Algerian-German business meeting held to coincide with a visit to the north African country this week by German President Horst Koehler, the paper said.
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Colorado Daily Staff Report,  November 18, 2007
Source: ColoradoDaily.com
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/11/18/news/c_u_and_boulder/news4.txt

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be no easy task, but expect Boulder County to be doing its fair share in the upcoming year. The vision for the future: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 – with Boulder County just one of the 360 U.S. cities representing more than 55.5 million Americans who pledged to dramatically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions this year.
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November 19, 2007
Source: Applied Materials, Inc. press release /trading markets.com
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/838105/

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire Baccini S.p.A., a leading supplier of automated  metallization and test systems for manufacturing crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic (PV) cells. This integrated equipment set addresses critical processing steps in c-Si solar cell production that significantly affect solar cell efficiency and yield, while enabling the use of ultrathin silicon wafers. Combining Baccini’s products and technologies with Applied’s semiconductor interconnect processing expertise, manufacturing capabilities, and R&D resources will provide customers with world-class, automated production technology for fabricating advanced c-Si solar cells.
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JIANGSU, China, Nov. 16, 2007
Source: Canadian Solar Inc. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1078912

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company”, or ”CSI”) (Nasdaq: CSIQ) announced that it has signed a new contract with German City Solar Group to deliver 60MW of solar modules for a series of solar power station projects in Spain. Shipment will start immediately. Installations are expected to be completed by the Summer of 2008. CSI has recently completed the delivery of 11.7 MW solar modules to City Solar for three large-scale solar power projects in Germany. The new 60 MW contract will expand the collaborations between the two companies from Germany to Spain, one of the fastest growing and strategically most important solar markets in the world.
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